The rich and fascinating history of the United States has given rise to countless stories of the supernatural. Join the authors as they search the country for the most frightening, tragic and uplifting spirits, whose struggles in life are reflected in a haunted hereafter:

the malevolent spirits of "Machine Gun" Kelly and Al Capone remain incarcerated in Alcatraz, still considered one of the most haunted places in America;

in a story that inspired a major Hollywood motion picture, an Iowa family summons an exorcist to expel a devil from an innocent girl;

when outraged citizens mutilate the corpse of a 19th-century killer, he exacts revenge by haunting the New Jersey house where his dreams were shattered;

two sisters wander the Octagon Mansion in Washington, D.C., where both tumped to their deaths on a winding stairwell;